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Home enteral nutrition therapy (HENT) is a method of nutritional support for individuals at home with functioning gastrointestinal tracts who are not able to receive food orally. The present study aimed to conduct a systematic review of the literature on the clinical conditions that lead to the use of indwelling nutrition support in the elderly. The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health (PubMed) and Scopus databases were used to search for articles with the following keywords in English: “home enteral nutrition”, “home tube feeding”, “home enteral nutrition therapy” and “elderly”, together with Boolean operators “or” and “and”. Included in the review were articles in English and Portuguese (Brazil), published from the 2000s, clinical studies that covered the general adult population, but the sample of the elderly population was separated from the adult population. A total of 64 articles were identified in …